Test Bank For World Criminal Justice Systems, 10E By Richard J. Terrill
Chapter 1-7
INTRODUCTION World Criminal Justice Systems: A Comparative Survey is designed to introduce students to some select foreign criminal justice systems in the world. The countries included for study in six of the chapters are: England, France, Japan, South Africa, Russia, and China. A final chapter focuses on Islamic law and features the countries of Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Turkey. While it is not necessary for a student to have an extensive understanding of criminal justice, this text assumes some familiarity with the criminal justice system of the United States. This kind of background should facilitate the student achieving the objectives from reading this book that are listed below. When students complete this book, they should be able to: 1. Recognize the basic governmental structure of each country and its relationship to the criminal justice system. 2. Appreciate the manner in which the justice system of each country has emerged historically. 3. Identify the major components of the criminal justice system of each country. 4. Comprehend the similarities and differences in how each country organizes and administers its justice system. 5. Distinguish the roles that the various practitioners play in each country’s justice system. 6. Understand the similarities and differences in how each country perceives the nature of law and the application of legal procedures in the criminal justice process. 7. Discern some of the critical issues that the criminal justice system of each country is confronting. 8. Consider how authoritarian governments have employed agents of their criminal justice system to facilitate their political agenda. For those instructors who have designed their comparative course to include a research component, the bibliography in the back of the book should prove useful for identifying both general books of a comparative or international nature and specific books that deal with the countries covered in the text. The bibliography also identifies journals that publish articles on comparative or international topics. Finally, most countries in the text have internet sites that should facilitate research projects.
CHAPTER 1: ENGLAND